Reuters Commuters take selfies beside billboards showing photographs of cats inside Clapham Common underground station in London on September 14, 2016. Cat images win the internet most days. Now thanks to an online campaign’s $30,000, fab felines replace every last trace of advertising in one…

Lucille Ball was a genius, a visionary and the woman who motivated me in so many ways to be who I am today. Like so many others, I grew up watching this hilarious woman and soaked up every piece of insight I could about how she became the Lucy we all loved. Among all of the facts about the…

Steve Morang just couldn’t stand it. After reading my column about the deception committed by both Volkswagen and Wells Fargo WFC -0.09% against their customers, he simply had to reach out by email to register his outrage. Joyce Ertel Hulbert, owner of a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, holds a sign…

Brian Kelly, who you may know as credit-card guru The Points Guy, joined MarketWatch for a live interview on Facebook in September. He gave some expert tips on how to make the most of your credit card points and frequent flier miles. Here are some highlights: On how long you should hold onto a card…

Apple Messages Engineer Bhaskar Sarma explains at WWDC in June how developers can extend their services into iMessage. Earlier this week Apple made its first public move to transform Messages into a platform that could one day be as profitable as the App Store. Now open to third party developers,…

Mobileye Co-founder, CTO and Chairman Amnon Shashua at a press event in Las Vegas at CES in January 2016 (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) For three years, Mobileye NV, the Jerusalem-based maker of camera sensors and software, supplied Tesla with technology for the semi-autonomous Autopilot…

Identity protection is one of the key aspects of overall security and protection against attacks. Nobody cares more about protecting their identity than gamers many of whom have thousands of dollars’ worth of games and in-game content. People are getting hacked everywhere, inside games and outside…

Every once in while in every industry someone comes along who you know is about to go viral. ‘Personal calculus’ is the main reason why venture capitalists back individuals first, and ideas second. The music industry is no different—ever mining for the next Blake Shelton or Beyonce the same way tech…

Philippines and Washington should give Beijing some space to save face over its big legal defeat over South China Sea disputes – to help diffuse the tensions in the region, which are turning into a major geopolitical event, and adding anxiety to already edgy global markets. It has been almost two…

Shutterstock When I talk with women leaders about the power of a personal brand, I am struck by how often they use the word “authentic.” For example, when I interviewed Suzy Monford, Chief Executive Officer, Andronico’s Community Markets , I asked her advice for women who want to be senior leaders.…

Business conferences are important for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference in the world. You need inspiration, and you need to look constantly be looking at things from a fresh perspective. One conference you shouldn’t miss this year is NextCon. NextCon16 is bringing together a range of…

Google Inc. is widening the competitive field by including integrations for nine ride-hailing options in the Google Maps app. Alphabet’s GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% Google said Thursday that it is adding Lyft and Gett to its slate of ride-hailing options, which already includes Uber, on iOS and…

Shares in Japan’s Nintendo Co. rallied on Thursday following its announcement of a new mobile game featuring the iconic Mario character, though broader stocks performance across Asia was mixed. As the Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.49% fell 0.3% as the yen USDJPY, +0.45% continued to strengthen…

Private equity firms have always found a sweet spot in buying business lines that are spun-off from corporate giants. These so-called ‘carve outs’ play into the wheelhouse of PE buyers who have the cash to quickly take a business off the hands of a restructuring corporate titan, and it is the…

By Christine Bailey (Photo courtesy of Pexels) At school when I was 16-years-old, I was told that something I wanted to do was only for stupid girls. Luckily I had the support of a great teacher who broke the rules and made it happen for me. That started me on a journey of recognizing how important…

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images “Life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early, you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast, and you don’t quite catch it.…

Learning Delivery ITT Closes All Campuses Following the most recent federal sanction, for-profit college chain ITT Educational Services Inc. will close doors at all of its more than 130 locations. September 7, 2016 by

With no scheduled maintenance planned, Sony’s online gaming network is offline for the second time this month. The first time the PlayStation Network went down this month was on September 1st, following an August 26th outage just days earlier. The outage today comes on the eve of Sony’s big…

New Entrants and Converging Industries In our initial blog on Europe’s energy transition , we discussed seven megatrends that are fundamentally changing how we produce and use power. This blog discusses how converging industries and new entrants are changing our industry, specifically focusing on…

Turnover in public accounting being what it is, few people at my firm realize that before I moved to Aspen a decade ago, I spent nearly two years working in our Princeton, New Jersey office. The wife and I lived across the river in Pennsylvania during that time, and once each morning and again in…

A picture is worth a thousand words. Or so they say… If this is true, why is it that so many marketers struggle to grow their brand on Instagram while their Twitter TWTR -5.12% and Facebook FB +0.06% accounts take off? After all, a picture has got to be at least worth more to your audience than 140…

The Practical Employer Associational Disability Discrimination Claims Are Rare, Yet Dangerous One employer in New Mexico learned an expensive and necessary lesson: Caregivers have rights. September 6, 2016 by

The first part of this series on PR Trends delved into some of the trends that could push your company ahead in 2017. As you contemplate your budget for the next fiscal year and plan the changes that will improve your PR efforts, here are a few more trends you should consider adding to the mix if…

After spending a week at Huawei’s first all-customer Connect 2016 conference in Shanghai, it’s hard not to come away impressed by both the Chinese technology juggernaut’s depth of innovation as well as its breadth of product offerings. Huawei’s greatest strengths may lie in its telecom and consumer…

Hot trends in corporate culture and management technique evolve from decade to decade, often in alignment with prevailing social trends. Recently, the “empowered workplace” has become popular, especially among tech-oriented companies. In empowered workplaces, many of the rigid rules of conduct such…

One might think that Sebastian Thrun, known in Silicon Valley as the father of the self-driving car, would be questioning his move away from the technology as autonomous cars become more than a pie-in-the-sky dream. “‘You had the coolest job on the planet, why are you doing this?’” Thrun said he is…

Much as designing customer experience has dominated the thinking of companies competing in today’s digital environment, organizations are now reexamining their employee experience. Technology can help companies take a personalized approach. September 5, 2016 by

Getty Images A stronger economy puts more cars on the road for longer, helping push up driving fatalities. Because American drivers are logging increased mileage and some are texting while driving, about 9% more died in vehicle crashes in the first six months of 2016 than in the same stretch last…

This weekend the annual JavaScript conference Nodevember became the most recent participant in the political correctness (PC) wars when it un-invited keynote speaker Douglas Crockford , renowned for his involvement in advances to the modern web and the JavaScript programming language, from its…

Seven years into a bull market for U.S. stocks, we’re seeing warnings every day that valuations may be too high. But the economic news is mostly positive , and many big retailers are increasing sales and widening profit margins. Earnings season is nearly over, and analysts polled by S&P Global…

(Photo courtesy of Shutterstock) Do you find it as disappointing as I do when you hear that a company’s cofounders have gone their separate ways? This is especially true when the leadership has put in sweat equity and gotten through the hard stuff: pooling resources, boot-strapping, finding the…